Prompt: 25 minutes: "this book" This Book This book I've tried to finish, publish, get out there for so very long, still sits on my cluttered desk, pulled, wrinkled, from the bag I took with me to the fall writer's conference this past weekend with high hopes of making headway in a seemingly never-ending process,
Prompt writing: 20 min: "after the storm" GO! After the Storm After the storm, the clouds make way for a little light to peek through. Then a little more. The deep elephant gray morphs into a lighter ashen gray, then a bluish tint that gives the moving sky that cotton candy look. The wind still
Thoughts on Writing from author Elizabeth Berg For my writer friends - I LOVE this - a facebook post from one of my favorite authors of all time - Elizabeth Berg. Thanks, Elizabeth - I feel the same way about writing! "Thanks so much to all of you who answered the question about what you'd
Prompt: "shared thoughts" 10 minutes. Go! Shared Thoughts Sometimes I just can't help but share my thoughts, words exploding from my mouth like hot lava before I even realize what I've said. Can't exactly stuff that lava back inside the volcano. No. Thoughts are out now. And so the argument begins. Sometimes I just can't
I recently wrote an essay for a competition that I did not win, and so I will not get to go to Oakland, California to meet Anne Lamott and Kelly Corrigan next month after all. Nor will I receive a call from a senior editor at Random House/Ballantine. Or from the Executive Editor at O
